The Iran Hostage crisis which began during Jimmy Carter's presidency ended the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Pearl Harbor naval base was established, and Martin Luther King Day was declared a holiday in most states in This Day in History video.n November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran.
Technically speaking, botanists classify the coconut as a drupe, not a nut. A drupe is a fleshy fruit enclosing a hard-shelled stone or seed and composed of an outer, middle, and inner layer. While a nut is a dry fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell.
Like the pepper, tomato, and pumpkin, watermelon is botanically a fruit. According to Websterâs dictionary and Wikipedia, a fruit is the ripened ovary of a seed plant and its contents, and a watermelon is a large oblong roundish fruit (2004, 2006).ome well known vegetables fall in this family such as watermelon, hubbard squash, butternut, pumpkin, sweet melons and cucumber. All a Matter of Perspective Depending on how you want to classify it, a watermelon can be considered a fruit or a vegetable.